Say It Isn't So ...

The non-conference hits just keep on coming. First it's Colgate pulling the curtain back and revealing Nate Eachus, a top-notch replacement for tailback Jordan Scott who not only was named the Patriot League Rookie of the Year, but also earned Patriot League first-team honors.

Now word out of Worcester is that record-setting Holy Cross quarterback Dominic Randolph could be back for a fifth year. From the Worcester Telegram:

Randolph was injured in the first half of his first junior varsity game his freshman year and did not play in any of the Crusaders’ games that season, so he has one year of eligibility left. Gilmore said he would qualify for a medical redshirt by NCAA standards, but the Patriot League has an academic component that has to be fulfilled for student-athletes to extend their eligibility.

Randolph apparently has withdrawn from the East Coast Bowl postseason game in order to protect his potential eligibility.

Dartmouth coach Buddy Teeens got a nice nod in a Times Picayune story about the legendary former Tulane football secretary, Ms. Fitz. From the story:

Fitzpatrick's favorite head coaches were Buddy Teevens ("such a gentleman"), and then Jim Pittman and Mack Brown.

You had to know this was coming at some point. A story out of San Francisco has a not-so-nice nod:

Buddy Teevens and Tyrone Willingham, the only two former (Stanford) Cardinal coaches with head coaching jobs this season, are both winless in 2008.

Teevens just finished an 0-10 season at Dartmouth, the first winless campaign for the Big Green since losing their only game in 1883.

Willingham has one game remaining in his season and career at Washington. After losing the Apple Cup to Washington State in double overtime, Willingham has an 0-11 record. The Huskies are the only winless team in major college football and need a win on Dec. 6 at California to avoid the school's first winless season since 1890.

The Yale Daily News has finally caught up on the, um, retirement of football coach Jack Siedlecki. The comments on the story range from ridiculous to perhaps enlightening, as is so often the case on Internet message boards.

This was a big day in Jay Fiedler's '94 NFL career. On this day in 2003 he passed for three touchdowns and ran for another to help the Miami Dolphins to a 40-21 win over Dallas in the annual Thanksgiving Day game.

Be thankful for family and friends today.